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H. L. GLIDDEN.

CUT SOLE RACK.

APPLICATION FILED FEB. 19.

H. L. GLIDDEN.

CUT SOLE RACK.

' APPLICATION FILED FEB-19.1916, 1 ,3 13,289. Patented Aug. 19,1919.

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THE COLUMBIA PLANOCIRAPH c0. WASHINGTON n c- UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HARVEY L. GLIDDEN, OF NAT-10K, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE. ASSIGN-- MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF PATERSON, JERSEY,

A CORPORATION OF ITEIH v JERSEY.

CUT-SOLE RACK- I Specification of Letters Patent. Patented Aug. 19, 1919.

Application filed February 19, 1916. Serial No. 79,434.

To all whom it may concern-1 Be it known that I, HARVEY L. GLIDDEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Natick, in the county of Middles'ex and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Cut-Sole Racks, of which the following description, in connection withthe accompanying drawings, is a specification, like reference characters on the drawings indicating like parts in the severalfigu-res.

This invention relates to racks and is herein. shown embodied in a ant-sole rack such as is used in shoe factories to store and transport quantities of cutsoles. It is found that the problem of storage of nonused racks becomes a serious matter in shoe factories. The number of racks in use varies greatly fromtime to time and as the racks are bulky many factories fail to have on hand the number which they need. It is obvious also that the cost of such bulky articles is increased by freight charges.

A demand has therefore arisen in the trade for racks which can "be readily knocked down and packed away in small compass when not in use. Shoe racks have heretofore been frequently made of wood because of the .lightness of 'this 'material. Many racks, however, are coming into use which are built of steel frames having wooden shelves and partitions. It has been recognized as desirable that such racks be made entirely of non-combustible material in orderto diminish the fire risk.

It is the object of my present invention to provide arack in which defects of racks heretofore used shall be obviated. I have herein shown and described a rack which is so constructed that it may be readily knocked down without the use of special tools and without the loss of much time; in which all the fastenings which have to be loosened in the knocking-down operation are a small number of bolts; and which, while light, is built entirely of metal.

In the accompanying drawings,- Figure 1 is a front elevation of the rack, Fig. 2 is a section on the line 22 of Fig. 1,

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 33 of Fig. 2, and

Fig. 4 is a section on. the line 4-4 of Fig. 3.

The main frame of the rack is builtsubstantially as" shoWn in the patent to Haminond, No. 1,100,072. It consists of ajbottom frame 10 having casters 11, upright end frames 12, lateral bracesl3 and end braces 14' substantially as in'the patent referred to. In each of theend frames 12 are bolted a series of angles 15 for supporting the shelves. These angles have. their horizontal flanges extending inward. A series'of tubes 16 slotted'at each end are mounted upon the horizontalw'fl anges of opposite angle irons l5 and f riveted thereto substantially as shown in the patent to Hammond, No. 1,108,363. The ends of the tubes bear squarelyagainst' the vertical flanges of the angle irons l5 and the bottoms of the slots in the tubes bear'squarely upon the horizontal flanges of the angle irons 15 and thus a stiff rigid construction of shelf is secured.

The shelf can be separated from'the main frame by simply taking'out the four bolts at the ends of its two angles 15." The two lower shelves shown in the drawings are tipped at a slight angle with the horizontal in order to make the piles of] material stored upon them (the rack shown in the drawings is designed for cut-soles-17Pas showii in Fig. 3) more stable and easier-to handle. The rear and lateral partitions are formed of small steel'irods '18. -The tubes of the lower shelf'have holes bored through their upper walls in, alinement with one another so as to form rows spaced apart a little more thanthewidth of a cut-sole and the rearmost tube has a series of holes which are more closely spaced or are offset from the rows in the other tubes in order to provide a rear wall for the pockets marked off by the rows in the other tubes (see Fig. 3). The tubes of the intermediate shelves have registering holes in their top and bottom walls forming a series registering vertically with the series described in connection with the bottom shelf. The tubes in the top shelf are bored so as topresent a lower series of openings in register with those in the lower shelves but with the holes in the upper walls of the tubes slightly ofiset as shown in Fig. 4. This slight lack of registration makes it necessary to bend the steel rods 18 slightly as they are forced in from the top. When the have been run through the shelves with their bottom ends resting upon the bottom walls of the lower set of tubes, their upper ends slip through the upper-holes in the upper tubes and the rods straighten out, being thus locked in position, as shown in Fig. 4. A rod can be easily removed by grasping it between the upper and the next lower shelf and bending it sidewise enough to point its upper end at the upper hole in the upper tube and then sliding it out of the rack.

The rack described is all metal and consequently fire proof. It is at the same-time light and easy to handle. It can be taken apart and folded up in small compass by merely removing the small bolts at the ends of the shelveswhich will permit the entire interior of the rack to be removed. The

rods can then be drawn out through the shelves and packed flat with. them whilethe base frame and its end uprights can be folded up as described in Patent No. 1,100,072. I

Having described my invention what I claim as new and desire to secure by United States Letters Patent is:

1. A rack comprising aplurality of spaced partition members having registering openings therein, a complemental outer partition member having an opening therein out of alinement with said registering openings, and a flexible member inserted through said registering and non-alining openings to form a partition extending substantially perpendicularly relatively to said first-named partition members.

2. A rack comprising a series of spaced transversely extending shelf members, all but the outer member of the series having a plurality of longitudinally and vertically alined openings and said outer memberhaving openings slightly out of register 'with said alined openings, and flexible members inserted through said alined and non-registering openings to form partition memtubular member and said other partition members whereby when saidflexible member isfinserted in position it is locked against withdrawal. r I

4. A rack comprising series of. spaced transversely extending shelf members having vertically alining apertures one of said apertures being slightly offset from others of the series whereby when aflexible partition member is inserted. through'said apertures it will move out of alinement with said ofi'set aperture and be held against withdrawal. v 5. A rack having spaced shelf'members in fixed relation, said members having a series of alining aperturesfone of said cpertures being slightly oifset from the others of the series whereby when a flexible partition member is inserted through said apertureS to extend substantially perpendicular of said shelfrmembers it will be held against withdrawal. 7

6. A rack'having a series of spaced trans verse shelf memberswith vertically alining apertures, an abutment at one end of the series, and a member at the other end of the series having an aperture slightly offset from the said alining apertures whereby a flexible partition member may be inserted endwise through said apertures and be locked in position. fi

In testimony whereof I'have signed my name to this specification. i

. HARVEY L. GLIDDEN.

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